Found this today and thought it would be a good topic to discuss.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/realclearpolitics/20081222/cm_rcp/myths_and_facts_about_the_real;_ylt=Ajbbhp6YUwPgAQy2r72usYkDW7oF

Myth 1: The last eight years were awful for most Americans economically and President Bush's deregulatory policies caused the current financial crisis.

President Bush worked with Congress to provide,this country experienced its longest run of uninterrupted job growth - 52 straight months, with 8.3 million jobs created.This reflected six consecutive years of economic growth from the Fourth Quarter of 2001 until the Fourth Quarter of 2007. From 2000 to 2007, real GDP grew by more than 17 percent, a remarkable gain of nearly 2.1 trillion dollars. This growth was driven in part by increased labor productivity gains that have averaged 2.5 percent annually since 2001, a rate that exceeds the averages of the 1970s, '80s, and '90s. In the same period, real after-tax income per capita increased by more than 11 percent, and there was a 4.7 percent increase in the number of new businesses formed.

Myth 2: President Bush's tax cuts only benefitted the wealthy and were paid for by sacrificing investments in health care and education.

The across-the-board tax cuts provided tax relief to every American who pays income taxes, created a new bottom 10 percent bracket rate, doubled the child tax credit to $1,000, and actually increased the share of the Federal income tax burden paid by the top 10 percent of individual earners from 67 percent in 2000 to 70 percent in 2005. Furthermore, this Administration removed 13 million low-income earners from the income tax rolls completely.The economic growth spurred by tax relief also spurred growth in Federal tax receipts. In fact, the Federal Treasury realized the largest three-year increase of revenue in 26 years, and tax receipts grew more than $542 billion between 2000 and 2007. And yes, much of that money went to investments in health care and education.

Myth 3: The President's "go it alone" foreign policy ruined America's standing in the world.

In Afghanistan,approximately forty countries are currently deployed with American forces,including every one of our NATO allies.The President also created a worldwide coalition of more than 90 nations to combat terrorist networks by sharing information, drying up their financing, and bringing their leaders to justice. To date, we have captured or killed hundreds of al-Qaeda leaders and operatives with the help of partner nations. Furthermore, the Administration established the Proliferation Security Initiative, which now includes more than 90 nations, and other multilateral coalitions to stop the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.


Myth 4: The war in Iraq caused us to "take our eye off the ball" in Afghanistan and with al Qaeda.

Iraq and Afghanistan are two fronts in the same war, and while the success of the surge in Iraq has been visible, we have also had a quiet surge in Afghanistan. The U.S. has continuously and aggressively fought side-by-side with Afghans and our allies to defeat the Taliban and al Qaeda in Afghanistan. The United States has provided nearly $32 billion for security, political, and economic development assistance and the international community has provided more than $55 billion to Afghanistan since 2001.


Myth 5: This Administration has been bad for the environment and ignored the problem of global warming.

From 2001 to 2007, air pollution decreased by 12 percent, and fine particulate matter pollution is down 17 percent since 2001. Ethanol production quadrupled from 1.6 billion gallons in 2000 to 6.5 billion gallons in 2007, wind energy production has increased by more than 400 percent, and solar energy capacity has doubled. In 2007, solar installations increased more than 32 percent and the U.S. produced 96 percent more biodiesel (490 million gallons) than in 2006. The Administration also provided nearly $18 billion to research, develop, and promote alternative and more efficient energy technologies such as biofuels, solar, wind, clean coal, nuclear, and hydrogen.This Administration has improved and protected the health of more than 27 million acres of Federal forest and grasslands, protected, restored, and improved more than three million acres of wetlands, and established the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, the world's largest fully protected marine conservation area (nearly 140,000 square miles).

ahhhhhhhh....more Nazi..I mean Bush propaganda...very amusing...I mean informative

I do not like Bush any more than anyone else but I have to give him credit where credit is due.I get tired of reading nothing but negative publicity on Bush and would like to read some positive news.

Hmmm...it didn't mention the rising unemployment rate, Katrina, and so much more.

I posted here in the past about the myth of liberal media.

Those posts fell away without comment.

If Liberal is anyone who doesn't stick their nose obediently up the administrations a$$ then...oh well you do the math.

If you cannot understand the objection many of us have to this administration and it's actions then you are not paying attention.

The media did not make me ill...Mister Bush did.

$crew the media interpretation of his actions...listen to what Bush says. Listen to what Cheney says. Listen to what they all say...the words from the horses mouth and to hell with the pundits and media mouthpieces who try and tell you what you heard.

LISTEN

Seriously have you ever read a piece of good news coming from the media on the war or Bush.Enough is enough.There is two types of people in this world...Those who want to dwell on negativity and past events and those who think positive and concentrate on the future.I am of the later.

Nobody responded to your posts on the liberal media because we all know the liberal media is full of crap.That is why you have newpapers like the New york times,The San fransico times,the LA times,The Chicago sun and other liberal newspapers are going bankrupt.People can get their news off the internet which gives them two sides to every story.

Just about all print media is not competeing well with the internet. Its a truth that most educated and well rounded people are liberal and this explains why most reporters, teachers,academics,students, etc etc are liberal leaning. My feelings are that the
less educated you are the more likely you will be a conservative. The exception being those that benefit directly from conservative values like the wealthy who loath taxes and social responsability.

“The biggest lie fed the American people by conservative pundits is that the United States is dominated by the ‘liberal media.’ As if Rupert Murdoch, Michael Eisner, General Electric, Time-Warner AOL and Viacom are owned and operated by liberals.

“Not only are these folks ultra-conservatives, but the people they hire to voice their opinions are so far to the right, they give independent journalism a dirty name. No, my friends, the corporate media is in the hands of right-wing kooks parading as moderates and pushing the political envelope further and further to the right.”

http://www.makethemaccountable.com/myth/LiberalMedia.htm

If it's on the internet, it must be true.

This just in from CNN

its so sad and true